Ron Binz, former chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, was recently nominated by President Obama to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (Denver Post file)

Accusations against Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler have been given heavy exposure in your pages, but when Democratic radical environmentalist Ron Binz was reported to be in line for a top-level Obama appointment, The Post’s ethics police fell silent.

Since Gessler took office in 2011, The Post’s editors have criticized Gessler often. The paper has given maximum coverage to accusations from his critics at the left-liberal Colorado Ethics Watch. Yet, when former Colorado Public Utilities Commission Chairman Ron Binz was reported to be the leading candidate to head the powerful Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, The Post’s editors and reporters were strangely silent about Binz’s history of ethical myopia and conflicts of interest.

To his credit, editorial page editor Vincent Carroll has written often about Binz’s problems, and in June he sounded an alarm about the Obama appointment (“Binz might head FERC? Say it ain’t so,” June 19). But those were opinion columns, not editorials or news coverage.

With only one paper in town, there’s no one to watch the watchdog.

Tom Tancredo, Littleton

This letter was published in the July 6 edition.

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